From Notcot
Posted on May 21st 2013, 07:30 PM
Here’s the latest from NOTCOT’s London-based editor and resident zoologist, Justine Aw as she checks out Clerkenwell Design Week 2013.I couldn’t help but stop as I caught a glimpse of the Cloud Leopard hanging through the open doorway of Craft Central at Clerkenwell Design Week. The stunning installation was cut by hand over five months by Nahoko Kojima of Solo Kojima and actually created right in Clerkenwell! Since it’s creation, the piece was unveiled at the Saatchi Gallery and has travelled extensively with Arte&Arte’s Miniartextil. More photos of this incredible piece on the next page.
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Posted on May 21st 2013, 07:17 PM
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Spotted at ICFF, these Kamina & C Stools designed by Takeshi Sawada are too cute ~ pictures really don’t do them justice. They are ADORABLE! And fuzzy and cute and perfectly little kid sized. Coming in Bambi, Sheep, and Cow variations, Bambi is by far the cutest, sheep at a close second… take a peek at the pics on the next page!
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Posted on May 21st 2013, 06:20 PM
Here’s the latest from London-based editor and resident zoologist, Justine Aw from the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show!One of the most incredible aspects of flowers shows like RHS Chelsea is amazing range and breadth of both wild type and cultivated plants. Leaves and flowers come in such a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors and textures and even closely related cultivars can look strikingly different. Yet, cultivated varieties are bred to consistency and this simultaneous diversity and uniformity are highlighted at shows like Chelsea where large stands are filled with nearly identical blooms of each variety. More photos from Chelsea on the next page.
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(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)Posted on May 21st 2013, 06:00 PM
© Stéphane Spach
Arquitectos: Loïc Picquet Architecte
Ubicación: Obermorschwiller, Alsace, Francia
Area: 110.0 m2
Año: 2012
Fotografías: Stéphane Spach
© Stéphane Spach
El proyecto creó 4 habitaciones para alojamiento en una antigua construcción de campo en Alsacia. Una nueva construcción de madera fue agregada como una extensión natural y fluida del campo antiguo, no solo renovandolo pero también honrandolo mediante el uso de sus detalles históricos.
De esta manera,...
From Core77
Posted on May 21st 2013, 05:16 PM
While I understand the appeal of the golden ratio as a rational approach to aesthetics most people would probably agree that it's impossible to reduce beauty to a series of numeric relationships. Yet the myth persists, and it should come as no surprise that these putatively ideal proportions might hypothetically inform graphic design as well—after all, the very premise of digital software is to allow us to create vector images with mathematically unerring accuracy.
And of all the countless logos that we see on a daily basis, Apple's ideogrammatic fruit is a leading candidate for a hypothetically golden (or hypothetically rational, as it were) logomark. Fed up with the conjecture, Quora's David Cole recently decided to investigate.
We won't ruin it for you, but it's a fascinating read. (Pseudo-spoiler alert, Cole ultimately cites Helvetica as a veritable gold standard of visual "...real visual rhythm is hurt by precision. This fact is where we get the saying in design: if it looks right, it is right."
Somewhat related (or at least obliquely relevant) if you're into this sort of thing: recent Art Center grad Andrew Kim reports from his meeting with the one and only Dieter Rams.
Hat-tip to Jayna Wallace
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From Archinect
Posted on May 21st 2013, 05:11 PM
The jury in the United States District Court in Houston found that Frontier committed copyright infringement by constructing and marketing nineteen houses that infringed Hewlett’s copyrighted designs. Frontier’s owner, Ronald Wayne Bopp, was also held personally liable for Frontier’s activities.The amount of the judgment was based on the amount of profits Frontier earned from the sales of houses that infringed Hewlett’s copyrights.
From Complex
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:57 PM
Extreme Makeover: Street Art Edition.
From Coolhunting
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:40 PM
Continue Reading...From Spoon-tamago
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:39 PM
Just like there are many categories of photographers – nature, portrait, street – so too exist a microcosm of Mt. Fuji photographers, each who have carved out a niche for themselves after what is presumably many years of photographic study directed at Fuji. The subcategories are as diverse as its subject matter: a mountain, yes. But so much more than just a mountain. Here are some of them:
Koichi Shimano | Mt. Fuji with clouds
Mt. Fuji with clouds is known, amongst a select few, as Kumofuji (雲富士). “Mt. Fuji remains the same yet the clouds and light are continuously changing,” says Koichi Shimano. “Every time I look at it I see something new, which is why I continue to photograph Kumofuji.
photos by Koichi Shimano | click to enlarge
Mt. Fuji from afar
Close-ups are always nice. But there is a distinct group of photographers who find pure joy in the challenge of photographing Mt. Fuji from far, far away. Here are some of the farthest possible locations to shoot Mt. Fuji.
Mt. Fuji from Fukushima prefecture (299km away) | photo by Kazuo Suzuki
Mt. Fuji from Hachijojima (271km away) | Photo by Hiroshi Yoshino
Mt. Fuji from Irokawafujimigake in Wakayama (323km away) | Photo by Koji Kiyomoto, Masaru Naka
Mt. Fuji from Zushi Port Tower in Chiba (198km away)
Mt. Fuji from a space shuttle (374 km away) | photo courtesy NASA
Mt. Fuji from the city
For those who love city life (and see no reason to leave), photographing Mt. Fuji behind a landscape of office buildings and high-rises...
From Archpaper
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:31 PM
From Dailyicon
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:30 PM
When Álvaro Siza, one of the great figures of contemporary architecture, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1992, the Jury described his forms as “molded by light, [with] a deceptive simplicity about them; they are honest. They solve design problems directly…. That simplicity, upon closer examination however, is revealed as great complexity. There is a subtle mastery underlying what appears to be natural creations.”
Born in Matosinhos, Portugal, in 1933, Siza created his own practice in Porto in 1954, and he has been a Professor of Construction at the University of Porto since 1976. The architect can fill shelf afer shelf with his awards and prizes to-date: He received the European Community’s Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1988 and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan in 1997, the 2009 RIBA Gold Medal, and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
He has built a large number of projects in Portugal, and worked on the restructuring of the Chiado area of Lisbon following a devastating fire in 1988. Siza designed both the Portuguese Pavilion for the 1998 Lisbon World’s Fair and the 2005 Serpentine Pavilion in London in collaboration with Eduardo Souto de Moura. He completed the Serralves Foundation in Porto, 1998, and the Museum for the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2008.
Álvaro Siza. Complete Works 1952-2013, Edited by Philip Jodidio, Hardcover, 30,8 x 39 cm, 500 pages,
Multilingual Edition: English, French,...From Mocoloco
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:16 PM
From Dezeen
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:00 PM
London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow)....
Posted on May 21st 2013, 04:00 PM
Cortesía de Red Megacentro
El mítico Hospital Ochagavía, conocido como el Elefante Blanco, y sus 84.000 m2 de hormigón armado estaría ad portas de una de las reconversiones más grandes en Chile. Tras 40 años de abandono, el pasado 5 de Mayo se anunció la venta a la empresa Red Megacentro, la cual pretende revitalizar el sector creando un nuevo polo de negocios y servicios para los habitantes de la comuna Pedro Aguirre Cerda y sus alrededores.
Durante el gobierno de Frei Montalva surgió...
From 2modern
Posted on May 21st 2013, 03:54 PM
In preparation for their move to a new location next year, the Whitney Museum of American Art asked the Dutch design studio Experimental Jetset to...
